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Britain's Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin had bluntly charged that the Polish Government's secret police used wholesale murder in order to intimidate the Polish electorate. The victims were members of the middle-of-the-road Polish Peasant Party, led by Vice Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk. Last week U.S. Secretary of State James F. Byrnes repeated the charge...
...Soil. The man for whom London and Washington were speaking was the symbol of another new Poland. This one too was antifascist, but democratic, willing to be Russia's friend but not its vassal. At 45, sturdy, strong-shouldered Stanislaw Mikolajczyk is unquestionably his country's most popular political leader. Barring a rigged election or sudden death, he and his peasant followers seemed likely to emerge from any fair test at the polls as Poland's No. 1 political faction...
...secret of Mikolajczyk's popularity lies in his origins. His roots in Poland's life go deep-deeper than the Red Army's. He was born a peasant in a nation that is 75% peasant. He came up politically as a peasant spokesman. He has never lost his peasant temperament; he is solid, slow in speech and thought, stubborn in principle and action. His chief political defect is a peasant's sly caution, often carried to the point of hesitation at moments of decision. Even his only known hobby has the peasant touch...
...Mikolajczyk was 17, fresh from his father's 50-acre farm in Poznan, when he joined the Polish uprising against the crumbling German Army. Two years later (1920), he was a private in the new Polish Army that beat the new Russian Army back from Warsaw...
Britain's Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin told a tense House of Commons last week that terror had become an instrument of national policy in the new Poland. Many members of Vice Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk's Polish Peasant Party who opposed the Communist-dominated Warsaw Government had been murdered. "Circumstances in many cases appear to point to the complicity of the Polish Security Police. ... I regard it as imperative that the Polish Provisional Government should put an immediate stop to these crimes in order that free and unfettered elections may be held as soon as possible, in accordance with...